ASIC design and data communications for the Boston retinal prosthesis

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 292-295

  Shire, Douglas B ^a   Ellersick, William ^b   Kelly, Shawn K ^a   Doyle, Patrick ^c   Priplata, Attila ^d   Drohan, William ^a   Mendoza, Oscar ^d   Gingerich, Marcus ^a   McKee, Bruce ^a   Wyatt, John L ^e   Rizzo, Joseph F ^e  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Analog Circuit Works Inc   (United States)

^c Harvest Automation   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION; ASIC DESIGN; CMOS TRANSISTORS; COMMUNICATION FEATURES; CONTROL UNIT; DATA-COMMUNICATION; ELECTRODE VOLTAGE; ERROR CHECKS; ERROR-CHECKING; FABRICATION PROCESS; LIGHTLY DOPED DRAINS; LOAD SHIFT; LOW POWER; NEURAL STIMULATIONS; PERFORMANCE MONITORING; RETINAL PROSTHESIS; RETINAL STIMULATION; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SECONDARY COILS; SELF-TEST; VISION RECOVERY; WAVE FORMS;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PATIENT REHABILITATION; SAFETY ENGINEERING;

PROSTHETICS;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESIS; RETINA; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; UNITED STATES; VISUAL PROSTHESIS;

BOSTON; EYE, ARTIFICIAL; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RETINA; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; VISUAL PROSTHESIS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84881077663     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2012.6345927     Document Type: Conference Paper

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